So the weekend was the excellent & long awaited Oxford Etsy Christmas fair. This year it was held at the Oxford Examinations school which felt like a very post venue (there was a beautiful ceiling with animals on it, I was under the boar). The weeks before the fair were a blur of activity as Read more about Etsy Christmas Fair[…]
It’s the one I had been waiting for, the Christmas fair at Cogges farm, Witney! If you’ve never visited Cogges it’s a lovely old farmhouse (parts date back to the 13th Century) just outside the historic market town of Witney and the Cotswolds. The house is open from March and as well as looking round Read more about Cogges farm Christmas fair[…]
It’s been very quiet on here for the last couple of months, partly due to us moving house (very exciting but also quite a lot of disruption to the normal state of things) and then due to me taking a few end of year classes both at Creative Glass Guild in Bristol and then a Read more about Back to class[…]
Just popping in to share with you my latest creative projects. In December I gained two new nieces as both my sister in law’s ended up giving birth within a day of each other! Both sets of babies and mothers are doing well so I decided to make them both a blanket to keep them Read more about Common threads[…]
This weekend I headed off to see Vince and Sue at Glass Jewels to do some more fusing. For this course we got to play with powders, metals, frits and lots of layers! Usually when fusing you lay the frit (ground coloured glass) and any other decorations onto the bottom sheet of glass & when Read more about Advanced fusing[…]
Every so often a project comes along that is a bit more challenging that you expect, and so it was with this Black arches panel. From the start of designing the panel I had a very clear idea of how I wanted it to look but getting it to look like that was a different Read more about Black Arches panel[…]
A couple of weekends ago I yet again entered the inspiring home & studio of Vince & Sue (Glass Jewels) to have another go at glass fusing We were also introduced to iridescent glass which was beautiful: When fusing you are looking to create a kind of glass sandwich. So for each piece we had Read more about Fusing jewelry[…]
We headed to art in action this weekend, I’d never been before and when we heard it was to be the last one the date was put in the calendar and guarded! The first thing that struck me once we got through the entry gate was how big the site was. Art in action is Read more about Art in action – the finale[…]
On Sat we headed to Witney for my hen party (only 3 weeks till our wedding & I confess it has gone really quickly). We were booked in at the Pottery place to do Mosaic or pottery painting (whilst drinking bubbles and nibbling cheese straws) before heading for a few drinks and dinner at The Read more about Time for a hen party…[…]
This Sat I headed off to Wolvercote to complete a 1 day introductory course in glass fusing with Glass Jewels. I’ve wanted to have a go at fusing for a while so was excited to arrive and start having the process explained to me. The above piece was my first test piece (featuring none other Read more about First adventures in fusing[…]